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The heart’s downward path to happiness: cross-cultural diversity in spatial metaphors of affect 心灵通往幸福的下坡路:情感空间隐喻的跨文化多样性

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0068

Ewelina Wnuk, Yuma Ito

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Using structural priming to test links between constructions: English caused-motion and resultative sentences inhibit each other 用结构启动测试结构之间的联系：英语引起的动句和结果句相互抑制

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-04-20 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0016

Tobias Ungerer

{"title":"Using structural priming to test links between constructions: English caused-motion and resultative sentences inhibit each other","authors":"Tobias Ungerer","doi":"10.1515/cog-2020-0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Cognitive-linguistic theories commonly model speakers’ grammatical knowledge as a network of constructions related by a variety of associative links. The present study proposes that structural priming can provide psycholinguistic evidence of such links, and crucially, that the method can be extended to non-alternating constructions (i.e., constructions that differ in both form and meaning). In a comprehension priming experiment using the “maze” variant of self-paced reading, English caused-motion sentences were found to have an inhibitory effect by slowing down participants’ subsequent processing of resultatives, and vice versa, providing evidence that speakers store distinct but related representations for the constructions. Priming effects of a similar magnitude emerged in both directions, suggesting that the constructions are bidirectionally related, while not supporting previous claims about a metaphorical asymmetry between the patterns. Moreover, priming was only marginally affected when prime and target contained the same rather than different verbs, demonstrating that cross-constructional priming in comprehension can be observed in the absence of a “lexical boost”. The results raise questions for follow-up research on the role of inhibition in the grammatical network and the extension of structural priming to other types of constructional links.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"32 1","pages":"389 - 420"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/cog-2020-0016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43111883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Balancing information-structure and semantic constraints on construction choice: building a computational model of passive and passive-like constructions in Mandarin Chinese 构式选择的信息结构与语义约束平衡:建立汉语被动与类被动构式的计算模型

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-04-16 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2019-0100

Li Liu, Ben Ambridge

{"title":"Balancing information-structure and semantic constraints on construction choice: building a computational model of passive and passive-like constructions in Mandarin Chinese","authors":"Li Liu, Ben Ambridge","doi":"10.1515/cog-2019-0100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2019-0100","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A central tenet of cognitive linguistics is that adults’ knowledge of language consists of a structured inventory of constructions, including various two-argument constructions such as the active (e.g., Lizzy rescued John), the passive (e.g., John was rescued by Lizzy) and “fronting” constructions (e.g., John was the one Lizzy rescued). But how do speakers choose which construction to use for a particular utterance, given constraints such as discourse/information structure and the semantic fit between verb and construction? The goal of the present study was to build a computational model of this phenomenon for two-argument constructions in Mandarin. First, we conducted a grammaticality judgment study with 60 native speakers which demonstrated that, across 57 verbs, semantic affectedness – as determined by further 16 native speakers – predicted each verb’s relative acceptability in the bei-passive and ba-active constructions, but not the Notional Passive and SVO Active constructions. Second, in order to simulate acquisition of these competing constraints, we built a computational model that learns to map from corpus-derived input (information structure + verb semantics + lexical verb identity) to an output representation corresponding to these four constructions (+“other”). The model was able to predict judgments of the relative acceptability of the test verbs in the ba-active and bei-passive constructions obtained in Study 1, with model-human correlations in the region of r = 0.5 and r = 0.3, respectively. Surprisingly, these correlations increased (to r = 0.75 and r = 0.5 respectively) when lexical verb identity was removed; perhaps because this information leads to over-fitting of the training set. These findings suggest the intriguing possibility that acquiring constructions involves forgetting as a mechanism for abstracting across certain fine-grained lexical details and idiosyncrasies.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"32 1","pages":"349 - 388"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/cog-2019-0100","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66877629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 7

Locative construals: topology, posture, disposition, and perspective in Secoya and beyond 定位识解:拓扑学、姿势、倾向和透视

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-04-12 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0099

Rosa Vallejos, Hunter Brown

{"title":"Locative construals: topology, posture, disposition, and perspective in Secoya and beyond","authors":"Rosa Vallejos, Hunter Brown","doi":"10.1515/cog-2020-0099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0099","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study has two aims. First, it lays out the synchronic patterning of four constructions that express static location in Secoya (Tukanoan). Each construction licenses different semantic verb types: topological verbs, postural verbs, an existential verb, and a copula. Second, this study explores the different construals encoded by these constructions and highlights the ways speakers use them creatively to elaborate on stage-level properties adjacent to location in locative utterances. Data collected from six speakers using visual stimuli reveal that each of the constructions elaborates on specific aspects of locative scenes. Responses for typical/atypical scenes, negative polarity statements, and frequency patterns show that speakers can choose conceptualizations that favor Ground geometry, Figure posture, more complex Figure dispositions, or marked perspectivizations. Similar phenomena are observed in other Amazonian languages. These results raise difficulties in identifying a basic locative construction, suggesting that Secoya may not fit squarely into any type in existing typologies of spatial expression (e.g., Ameka and Levinson 2007). Additionally, the Secoya system raises questions about the relationship between conceptual alternativity and the notion of “basicness” with respect to construal types.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"32 1","pages":"251 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/cog-2020-0099","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41498557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Constructional associations trump lexical associations in processing valency coercion 构词联想在加工配价强迫时优于词汇联想

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-03-12 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0050

Lucia Busso, Florent Perek, Alessandro Lenci

{"title":"Constructional associations trump lexical associations in processing valency coercion","authors":"Lucia Busso, Florent Perek, Alessandro Lenci","doi":"10.1515/cog-2020-0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0050","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper investigates the interaction of lexical and constructional meaning in valency coercion processing, and the effect of (in)compatibility between verb and construction for its successful resolution (Perek, Florent & Martin Hilpert. 2014. Constructional tolerance: Cross-linguistic differences in the acceptability of non-conventional uses of constructions. Constructions and Frames 6(2). 266–304; Yoon, Soyeon. 2019. Coercion and language change: A usage-based approach. Linguistic Research 36(1). 111–139). We present an online experiment on valency coercion (the first one on Italian), by means of a semantic priming protocol inspired by Johnson, Matt A. & Adele E. Goldberg. 2013. Evidence for automatic accessing of constructional meaning: Jabberwocky sentences prime associated verbs. Language & Cognitive Processes 28(10). 1439–1452. We test priming effects with a lexical decision task which presents different target verbs preceded by coercion instances of four Italian argument structure constructions, which serve as primes. Three types of verbs serve as target: lexical associate (LA), construction associate (CA), and unrelated (U) verbs. LAs are semantically similar to the main verb of the prime sentence, whereas CAs are prototypical verbs associated to the prime construction. U verbs serve as a mean of comparison for the two categories of interest. Results confirm that processing of valency coercion requires an integration of both lexical and constructional semantics. Moreover, compatibility is also found to influence coercion resolution. Specifically, constructional priming is primary and independent from compatibility. A secondary priming effect for LA verbs is also found, which suggests a contribution of lexical semantics in coercion resolution – especially for low-compatibility coercion coinages.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"32 1","pages":"287 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/cog-2020-0050","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45370080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 5

Entrenchment effects in code-mixing: individual differences in German-English bilingual children 代码混合中的强化效应：德英双语儿童的个体差异

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-03-09 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0036

Antje Endesfelder Quick, A. Backus, E. Lieven

{"title":"Entrenchment effects in code-mixing: individual differences in German-English bilingual children","authors":"Antje Endesfelder Quick, A. Backus, E. Lieven","doi":"10.1515/cog-2020-0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0036","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Following a usage-based approach to language acquisition, lexically specific patterns are considered to be important building blocks for language productivity and feature heavily both in child-directed speech and in the early speech of children (Arnon, Inbal & Morten H. Christiansen. 2017. The role of multiword building blocks in explaining L1-L2 differences. Topics in Cognitive Science 9(3). 621–636; Tomasello, Michael. 2003. Constructing a language: A usage-based theory of language acquisition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press). In order to account for patterns, the traceback method has been widely applied in research on first language acquisition to test the hypothesis that children’s utterances can be accounted for on the basis of a limited inventory of chunks and partially schematic units (Lieven, Elena, Dorothé Salomo & Michael Tomasello. 2009. Two-year-old children’s production of multiword utterances: A usage-based analysis. Cognitive Linguistics 20(3). 481–508). In the current study, we applied the method to code-mixed utterances (n = 1,506) of three German-English bilingual children between 2 and 4 years of age to investigate individual differences in each child’s own inventory of patterns in relation to their input settings. It was shown that units such as I see X as in I see a Kelle ‘I see a trowel’ could be traced back to the child’s own previous productions. More importantly, we see that each child’s inventory of constructions draws heavily on multiword chunks that are strongly dependent on the children’s language input situations.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"32 1","pages":"319 - 348"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/cog-2020-0036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46954576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

Predicting syntactic choice in Mandarin Chinese: a corpus-based analysis of ba sentences and SVO sentences 汉语句法选择预测——基于语料库的ba句和SVO句分析

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-03-05 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0005

Yu Fang, Haitao Liu

{"title":"Predicting syntactic choice in Mandarin Chinese: a corpus-based analysis of ba sentences and SVO sentences","authors":"Yu Fang, Haitao Liu","doi":"10.1515/cog-2020-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper investigates the effects of 10 factors on the choice between alternative ba sentences and SVO sentences in Mandarin Chinese. These factors are givenness, definiteness, animacy and pronominality of NP2s, NP2 length, VP length, verb sense, syntactic parallelism, dependency distance, and surprisal. Using corpus data and mixed-effects logistic regression modeling, we find that on the one hand, givenness, syntactic parallelism, and the log-transformed ratio of NP2 length and VP length are significant predictors of the choice between ba sentences and SVO sentences. A new NP2, a large length ratio and a parallel construction predict an SVO sentence rather than a ba sentence. On the other hand, dependency distance and surprisal estimated by the trigram model are effective in predicting the choice between naturally occurring ba/SVO sentences and their alternatives. Naturally occurring sentences are more likely to have shorter dependency distances and smaller surprisal values than the converted sentences. The effects of these five factors on syntactic choice are congruent with results of previous studies, which suggests that some determinants of syntactic choice are shared among languages.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"32 1","pages":"219 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/cog-2020-0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43874695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2021-frontmatter1

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About as boring as flossing sharks: Cognitive accounts of irony and the family of approximate comparison constructions in American English 就像用牙线剔牙的鲨鱼一样无聊:对美国英语中反讽和近似比较结构家族的认知描述

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0018

Claudia Lehmann

{"title":"About as boring as flossing sharks: Cognitive accounts of irony and the family of approximate comparison constructions in American English","authors":"Claudia Lehmann","doi":"10.1515/cog-2020-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper reports a case study on a family of American English constructions that will be called the family of approximate comparison constructions. This family has three members, all of which follow the syntactic pattern about as X as Y with X being an adjective, but which allow three related functions: literal comparison, simile and irony. Two cognitive frameworks concern themselves with irony, the cognitive modelling approach and viewpoint approach, and the paper will show that, while the ironic approximate comparison construction calls central assumptions of the cognitive modelling approach to question, the viewpoint account can be refined to handle these cases. In doing so, it furthers our understanding of the cognitive underpinning of irony. The paper provides a corpus-based analysis on the Y slot as well as collostructional analyses on the adjectival X slot in the family of approximate comparison constructions. The results thereof suggest that the ironic approximate comparison construction, in comparison to its literal counterpart, prefers adjectives that convey positively connotated, nuanced attitudes and is formally less variable in the Y slot. The preference for particular adjectives lends further support to the assumption that hearers understand the construction as ironic or literal before speakers complete their utterance. Given that, it is argued that the ironic approximate comparison construction communicates an inherent viewpoint.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"32 1","pages":"133 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/cog-2020-0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41983074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Of absent mothers, strong sisters and peculiar daughters: The constructional network of English NPN constructions 缺席的母亲、坚强的姐妹和奇特的女儿：英语NPN结构的建构网络

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Cognitive Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-01-27 DOI: 10.1515/cog-2020-0013

Lotte Sommerer, Andreas Baumann

{"title":"Of absent mothers, strong sisters and peculiar daughters: The constructional network of English NPN constructions","authors":"Lotte Sommerer, Andreas Baumann","doi":"10.1515/cog-2020-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper analyzes symmetric NPN constructions (e.g., day to day, face to face, step by step) qualitatively and quantitatively by examining data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, Mark. 2008–. The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA): 570 million words, 1990–present. http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/). The constructions’ frequency and productivity, as well as their semantics and extension potential (i.e., modification, complementation) is investigated (e.g., by conducting collostructional analysis). In terms of theoretical modeling, the paper takes a Usage-based, Cognitive Construction Grammar approach (UCCxG) and sketches the constructional network of this constructional family, postulating various constructional templates on different levels of specificity – among others – the existence of the following subtypes [CNsg,time i after CNsg,time i]Cx (e.g., day after day, night after night), [CNsg,measurement i by CNsg,measurement i]Cx (e.g., inch by inch, step by step) or [CNsg,bodypart i to CNsg,bodypart i]Cx (e.g., skin to skin, shoulder to shoulder). We show how these templates are vertically and horizontally connected to each other. Ultimately, we argue that in a usage-based model which strives for cognitive plausibility it is not always feasible to postulate the entrenchment of an abstract overarching schema (i.e., a ‘mothernode’) like [CNi P CNi]Cx or even [N P N]Cx high up in the network. It is unlikely that speakers abstract such a general schema in a bottom-up acquisition process for this family. Rather, the NPN group is a constructional family characterized by many sister ties and by the absence of mother nodes from which information can be inherited.","PeriodicalId":51530,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Linguistics","volume":"32 1","pages":"97 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/cog-2020-0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47637738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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